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  • Visiting the Cockpit: SQTalker Experiences

    Originally posted by zhiw3n View Post
    I've always wanted to get a shot with the pilots in the flight deck. I suppose it's more appropriate to ask after arrival? I reckon the pilots would be busy with their pre-departure checks and stuff during general boarding?
    I requested for a picture with the Captain for my first ever SQ F LHR-SIN flight as a momento. To my surprise, after landing, the whole team of 4 came down to the cabin ( I believe 2 P1s and 2 P2s) and posed with me.

    The only cockpit shot I managed to get was on a BA flight to LHR. Again, that was on a special very flight for me...
    Last edited by SQFAN; 3 July 2007, 12:58 AM.

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    And the picture? Where is it? Still being camera-shy, are you?
    ‘Lean into the sharp points’

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    • #3
      i last visited the cockpit inflight during my trip to johannesburg last year.Last month after the flight arrived from saigon i too visited the cockpit

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      • #4
        Those were the good old days prior 9-11.

        I always try to talk to the flight crew before any flights to ask permission to observe the take-offs and landings. Success rate was about 50%.

        My best experience was on a CX flight to Kansai when the captain requested for a visual landing when the plane was just alongside to the runway. Once ATC approved, he made a sharp U-turn to the right and skillfully placed the aircraft in line with the runway just like driving a car!! It was so low and so close to the runway!! Man! Was I impressed!

        Now, you want to ask?? Don't even think of it; you may be considered a security risk and get off-loaded!!

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        Last edited by Audio; 4 February 2011, 01:24 PM.

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        • #5
          On my recent AC flight from YVR-LAS the lady opposite me asked the FA if her son could visit the cockpit. The FA said that it was strickly not allowed anymore during the flight but they were fairly certain the captain would agree to a visit once we had arrived at our gate at LAS.

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          • #6
            I thought I'd post a picture I took the last time I was in the cockpit...


            Can anyone find the Mach meter?

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            • #7
              Originally posted by DeltaFlyingProf View Post
              I thought I'd post a picture I took the last time I was in the cockpit...

              Can anyone find the Mach meter?
              Must be a concorde, right given 3 flight crews plus the additional cockpit window mountings. IIRC, you have flown a concorde in the past. OK, I could not find a Mach meter within the cockpit but I know there is one in the cabin.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by SQFAN View Post
                Must be a concorde, right given 3 flight crews plus the additional cockpit window mountings. IIRC, you have flown a concorde in the past. OK, I could not find a Mach meter within the cockpit but I know there is one in the cabin.
                Yup there is one:


                It was in May 2003, so, after 9/11 by far. It was the last but 3 flight AF-2 CDG-JFK. It was the crew's last Concorde flight so the pilot was also taking pictures, including one of me taking a picture of him.


                I did ask to stay in the cockpit for the landing. Unfortunately, the French test pilot was also on board and they had promised him the jump seat

                An unforgettable experience nonetheless in the mythical seat 1C!

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                • #9
                  I think you just provoked the envy of a number of SQTalkers, DFP. Nice pictures, and what an awesome experience to look back to.
                  ‘Lean into the sharp points’

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by jjpb3 View Post
                    I think you just provoked the envy of a number of SQTalkers, DFP. Nice pictures, and what an awesome experience to look back to.
                    Yeah, I have never taken the concorde before. Maybe DFP can post more pics of the concorde.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by SuperJonJon View Post
                      Yeah, I have never taken the concorde before. Maybe DFP can post more pics of the concorde.
                      I have a few more outside pictures. Strangely enough, I felt that people who take Concorde were VIPs who would frown upon someone taking pictures where they could be visible. As a result I took almost no pictures inside. I also have other funny pictures in which AF employees are getting their picture taken, including one guy walking on the wing. There was one on my cell phone that I lost with about 40 employees posing in front of it.

                      One thing I confirmed from my Concorde experience is how bad CDG is designed, even in the arrangement of runways and taxiways vs the terminal:

                      I've always found that taxi time at CDG is horrendous.
                      Concorde always had priority and would never have to wait in line for takeoff. Yet it took 20 (repeat after me: twenty!) minutes of taxi before takeoff!!! Yet it only took 10 minutes from the moment the brakes were released until we reached Mach 1 over the water!!!

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                      • #12
                        Here are two more pictures taken from the Concorde lounge, which, strangely enough, CO shared. CO passengers used a small portion of it.
                        Also memorable was the fact that they take your jacket/coat in the lounge and return it to you after landing. Bit of a variation from the current routine
                        Notice the employee in the foreground. They were part of the group that had posed to take their picture in front of it.


                        Then there are those who can get more unique pictures for bigger bragging rights:

                        If you look at the landing gear doors, you may be able to read "FA" this is therefore F-BVFA which was the Concorde that did the first supersonic commercial service, Paris-Dakar-Rio, while a BA aircraft did London-Bahrain I think. This Concorde is now at the Smithsonian in Washington, but you cannot go inside it

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                        • #13
                          those pictures are wonderful deltaflyingprof. thanks so much for sharing! i always wished i had the financial wherewithal at that time to be a part of the concorde experience. hopefully, one day something like that will return.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by taipeiflyer View Post
                            those pictures are wonderful deltaflyingprof. thanks so much for sharing! i always wished i had the financial wherewithal at that time to be a part of the concorde experience. hopefully, one day something like that will return.
                            I did not have the financial backing necessary, but I had a lot of miles in my DL account So when I heard on CNN that it was being retired, I IMMEDIATELY called DL and said: "GET ME SEATS ON CONCORDE!!!!" LOL

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by taipeiflyer View Post
                              i always wished i had the financial wherewithal at that time to be a part of the concorde experience.
                              Or knew then about the scheme whereby you buy lots of InsideFlyer subscriptions and converted (if I recall correctly) the resulting SPG points into enough QF miles for a Concorde redemption at a fraction of the monetary cost of buying a revenue ticket! I believe there are several (or lots ?) of people on TOF who flew Concorde as a result of that.

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